From hcampbell@titech.ac.jp Sat Oct 21 22:57:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!titech!hcampbell From: hcampbell@titech.ac.jp (Hugo Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct21.225709.1491@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 22:57:09 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Hugo Campbell US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From mgirard@utexas.edu Sun Oct 22 09:08:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!mgirard From: mgirard@utexas.edu (Matthias Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct22.090809.3054@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 09:08:09 GMT References: <1995Oct21.225709.1491@titech.ac.jp> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct21.225709.1491@titech.ac.jp>, hcampbell@titech.ac.jp (Hugo Campbell) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Matthias Girard Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mramirez@pipeline.com Mon Oct 23 15:29:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!mramirez From: mramirez@pipeline.com (Mikhail Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct23.152909.3472@pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 15:29:09 GMT References: <1995Oct21.225709.1491@titech.ac.jp> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct21.225709.1491@titech.ac.jp>, hcampbell@titech.ac.jp (Hugo Campbell) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Mikhail Ramírez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of The Pipeline Internet Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ffischer@earthlink.net Tue Oct 24 03:34:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!ffischer From: ffischer@earthlink.net (Fiona Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct24.033409.9120@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 03:34:09 GMT References: <1995Oct21.225709.1491@titech.ac.jp> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct21.225709.1491@titech.ac.jp>, hcampbell@titech.ac.jp (Hugo Campbell) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Fiona Fischer -- EarthLink Network "We don't sign stars. We build them."